{"id":7778,"date":"2019-10-02T20:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/old-people-are-stealing-more-stuff-in-japan\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T20:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T20:53:12","slug":"old-people-are-stealing-more-stuff-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/old-people-are-stealing-more-stuff-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Old People are Stealing More Stuff in japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Theft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy – slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.
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\u8b66\u5bdf\u5385 – j\u01d0ng chá t\u012bng – Japan’s Natio<\/em>nal Police Agency
\u884c\u5217 – háng liè – Procession
\u68c0\u4e3e – ji\u01cen j\u01d4 – To report a crime \/ incident
\u636e\u79f0 – jù ch\u0113ng – Allegedly, according to reports
\u8282\u4fed – jié ji\u01cen – Thriftiness, penny-pinching
\u8c03\u67e5 – diào chá – Investigation, inquiry
\u81ea\u5236\u5fc3 – zì zhì x\u012bn – Self-control
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Japanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese Natio<\/em>nal Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and co<\/em>nvenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of “Young Thieves” (14-19 year-olds).
Allegedly, among the reasons given by “Old thieves” who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren’t willing to pay mo<\/em>ney to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn’t have the mo<\/em>ney to buy it. An additio<\/em>nal 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers.
Reports say that goods stolen by old people mostly co<\/em>nsist of foodstuffs. Natio<\/em>nal Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are co<\/em>ncerned a<\/em>bout their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is ba<\/em>sed in “thriftiness”. At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society’s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.
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